@article{6359,
  keywords = {Botanic medicine, Cultural heritage - Campeche (Mexico), Ethnobotany, Maias, Maya, medicinal plant, Useful plants, botánica médica, botânica médica, domestic medicine, etnobotânica, etnobotânica, Intangible cultural heritage, mayas, medicina casera, medicina popular, medicinal plants, Oral tradition, patrimonio cultural -Campeche (México), Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial, patrimônio cultural - Campeche (México), Patrimônio cultural imaterial, plantas medicinais, plantas medicinales, plantas úteis, plantas útiles, tradición oral, tradição oral},
  author = {Lizbeth Mercedes Rodríguez},
  title = {De enfermedades y remedios: la transmisión oral del uso doméstico de plantas con fines medicinales en Campeche, México},
  abstract = {The oral transmission of knowledge about the domestic use of plants for medicinal purposes in some communities in Campeche, Mexico, is included within the Intangible Cultural Heritage because its transmission from generation to generation, since pre-hispanic times. As part of a sense that the modern Maya still have to the land that provides them with plants and their use to restore the health of the individual, this paper describes the knowledge and use of plants in order to cure common diseases in urban and rural families in particular. To cure these pathologies in a domestic way is not required a deep knowledge and rituals as in the case of so-called herbalists,  curanderos  or h-menoob [priests, in Maya language]. Although this knowledge has survived, adjustments to the current Mexican law are needed in order to preserve the application of medicinal plants to treat common ailments to avoid the loss of this oral transmission.},
  volume = {25},
  number = {1},
  pages = {62-71},
  issn = {1657-9763},
  url = {http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1657-97632012000100006&lang=es},
}